In a table, I have a text-field. I need to be able to select only the first 200 chars of the field – but LEFT does not work with TEXT-fields.
What to do?
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In a table, I have a text-field. I need to be able to select only the first 200 chars of the field – but LEFT does not work with TEXT-fields.
What to do?
instead of left . try with SUBSTRING
e.g :
select SUBSTRING(TEXT,1,200) from dbo.tblText